Geez woken up so very “gently” at 07:42 with hammering noises and a drill. Apparently they are constructing a few more additional rooms at Anthology of Athens. Not exactly the way to be woken up at a five-star hotel! I noticed from the rooftop terrace the hotel’s “swimming pool”. It doesn’t strike one as aContinue reading “2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version:17September2026: Athens: Woken up by construction noises at 07:42 at Anthology of Athens”
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2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version: 17September2026: Athens Imagine What Was! The Acropolis and the Acropolis Museum: Am I Watching Some Vulgar Television Show “The Two-Ton Family”?
A 10-minute walk from our hotel Anthology of Athens we are at the foot of the Acropolis and as luck may have it no human swarms. Probably beat the cruise ship locusts that destroy “touristic hot spots”. Passengers must not miss all you can eat post breakfast pre lunch buffet “with authentic Greek hamburgers andContinue reading “2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version: 17September2026: Athens Imagine What Was! The Acropolis and the Acropolis Museum: Am I Watching Some Vulgar Television Show “The Two-Ton Family”?”
RKS French Wine: Château Guillou 2022 from Saint-Émilion
A blend of 20% Cabernet Franc and 80% Merlot. Aroma: A tsunami of raspberry and blackberry wallops the nose and not flabby and over expressive as tightly knit. Palate: Chalky tannins restrain the fruit but do not deaden it. Perhaps this is why it might be appropriate to refer to it as tightly knit. PredominatelyContinue reading “RKS French Wine: Château Guillou 2022 from Saint-Émilion”
RKS African Literature: Kenyan Women as Tourist Attractions (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)
The abilities and potential of our women are enslaved to the typewriter, the bar or the beds in those hotels we have put up in every corner of the country for the pleasure of tourists. How insulting to our national dignity that our women should have become mere flowers to decorate the beds of foreignContinue reading “RKS African Literature: Kenyan Women as Tourist Attractions (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)”
RKS African Literature: Misogyny Overcome (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)
People love to denigrate the intelligence and intellectual capacity of our women by saying that the only jobs a woman can do are to cook, to make beds and to spread their legs in the market of love. The Warĩĩnga of today has rejected all that reasoning that because her thighs are hers, her brainContinue reading “RKS African Literature: Misogyny Overcome (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)”
RKS African Literature: GLORIOUS SLAVERY: KENYON-SAXON EXPORTERS: HUMAN BLOOD AND FLESH (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)
This means that the churches, the schools, the poetry, the songs, the cinema, the beer halls, the clubs, the newspapers will act as brain-washing poisons whose purpose will be to convince the worker that in this world there is nothing as glorious as slavery to the Kimeendeeri class, so that each worker will look forwardContinue reading “RKS African Literature: GLORIOUS SLAVERY: KENYON-SAXON EXPORTERS: HUMAN BLOOD AND FLESH (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)”
RKS African Literature: BRUTE FORCE: Controlling the Workers of KENYON-SAXON EXPORTERS: HUMAN BLOOD AND FLESH (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)
But to be on the safe side, Kimeendeeri will build prisons and law courts and will hire armed forces, so that anyone who opposes Shamba’s system of laws or wishes to leave the confines of the farm will be punished by being jailed or detained in pits of total darkness or shot and thrown toContinue reading “RKS African Literature: BRUTE FORCE: Controlling the Workers of KENYON-SAXON EXPORTERS: HUMAN BLOOD AND FLESH (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)”
RKS African Literature: LIQUOR: Controlling the Workers of KENYON-SAXON EXPORTERS: HUMAN BLOOD AND FLESH (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)
Kimeendeeri will also build breweries and clubs for hard liquor and other alcoholic drinks, like chang’aa and lager so that alcohol will make idiots out of those who have not already been crazed by Christian and Muslim ritual. Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o, “Devil on the Cross”, 1982
RKS African Literature: CONTROL OF MEDIA: Manipulating the Workers of KENYON-SAXON EXPORTERS: HUMAN BLOOD AND FLESH (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)
Kimeedeeri will also publish newspapers, whose role will be to denigrate those opposed to the system of drinking human blood and eating human flesh, and to celebrate the charitable hand-outs of Kimeedeeri and his friends. Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o, “Devil on the Cross”, 1982
RKS African Literature: RELIGION: Controlling the Workers of KENYON-SAXON EXPORTERS: HUMAN BLOOD AND FLESH (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)
On the farm he’ll build churches or mosques, depending on the religious inclinations of the workers. He will employ priests. Every Sunday the workers will read sermons that will instruct them that the system of milking human sweat, human blood and human brains-the system of the robbery of human labour power and human skills isContinue reading “RKS African Literature: RELIGION: Controlling the Workers of KENYON-SAXON EXPORTERS: HUMAN BLOOD AND FLESH (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)”
